Index and Surd Laws
Expanding Quotients

Index and Surd Laws

​Index laws

• Multiplying indices using unknowns
• Dividing indices using unknowns
• Power of a power using unknowns
• The zero power
• Expanding quotients
• What are negative indices?
• Simplifying problems with negative indices
• ​Rational indices​

​​Application of indices

• Scientific notation
• Significant figures​

Surd laws

• Simplifying surds
• Operating with surds

If a quotient in brackets is to be raised to a power, each number or variable in the brackets is raised to that power.